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THE Association of Scientific Workers has a number of achievements to its credit, but none more pregnant with possibilities for advancing the interests of science and scientific workers than its success in getting together during the last Parliamentary session more than seventy members of the House of Commons to form the nucleus of a Parliamentary Science Committee upon which it is hoped to build a body representative of both legislative houses and of all political parties. That the nucleus is so large, although less than one-third of the members of the Commons have so far been approached, is encouraging evidence of the growing desire of members of Parliament to be informed of the progress of science and the possibility of its more intensive application to the problems with which they are confronted. It was in this belief that Major Church, general secretary of the Association of Scientific Workers, and now happily once more a member of Parliament, approached them. The result justifies his belief. It is to be hoped that it will also convince scientific workers of the importance of supporting the candidature and otherwise assisting in the return to Parliament of persons who are, by virtue of their training, experience, and associations, in a position to voice their aims and aspirations faithfully and to know and evaluate the contributions which science has to make to society as a whole.
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A Parliamentary Science Committee. Nature 124, 641–643 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124641a0
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